[wplug] {a} software packages

Eric Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Wed May 5 10:12:22 EDT 2010


On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Arnaud wrote:
> I'm installing some software packages from an old jaunty repo in
> ubuntu lucid and I noticed that each of the packages had {a}
> appended to the end of it. Can someone tell me what this means?

I think aptitude uses this to indicate packages that are being
installed automatically to fulfill dependencies.  But I couldn't find
any definitive documentation of this, only an example in the man page.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


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